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Trio of UNOH 200 competitors receive P2 penalties post-Bristol

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NASCAR issued penalties Tuesday to three NASCAR Camping World Truck Series teams, including the winning team for driver/owner Brad Keselowski, for violations found in a post-race inspection last week at Bristol Motor Speedway.

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NASCAR officials hit Brad Keselowski Racing, which fielded the winning truck for Keselowski’s first victory in the series after 61 previous attempts, with a P2 penalty under the new technical infraction deterrence system instituted in the offseason. The Turner Scott Motorsports No. 30 team for third-place finisher Ron Hornaday Jr. and the Gene Haas-owned No. 00 Chevrolet for eighth-place Cole Custer were also docked under the heading of P2.

The infractions are Section 12-1: Actions detrimental to stock car racing and 20B-12.8.1: Truck failed to meet post-race height requirements.

All three trucks measured too high at the rear spoiler after last Thursday’s UNOH 200 on the .533-mile track. NASCAR eliminated ride-height rules for the Sprint Cup Series during the offseason, but rules limiting ride heights in NASCAR’s other national series remain in effect.

Keselowski was docked 10 team owner points as owner of the No. 19 Ford. As a Sprint Cup regular and occasional competitor in the truck series, Keselowski is ineligible for points counting toward the truck driver standings. His crew chief, Doug Randolph, was fined $5,000.

NASCAR officials stripped Hornaday, a four-time series champion, of 10 points in the driver championship standings and deducted 10 team owner points for Steve Turner, owner of Hornaday’s No. 30 Chevrolet. Doug George, his crew chief, drew a $5,000 fine. The loss of 10 championship driver points knocks Hornaday back to fourth place behind Ryan Blaney, who moves up to third.

Custer, a 16-year-old driver in the NASCAR Next program, lost 10 points in the driver standings and Gene Haas, listed as the owner of record for the No. 00 Chevrolet, was penalized 10 points in the team owner standings as well. Joe Shear Jr., the team’s crew chief, was also hit with a $5,000 fine.

The series’ next race is scheduled this Sunday, Aug. 31 (1:30 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1) at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, the circuit’s only international track.

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Posted on August 26, 2014 by Zack Albert

Dates for all three national series unveiled with new network partners

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NASCAR released its 2015 schedule of races for all three of its national series on Tuesday, realigning the dates for several tracks, including moving the Southern 500 back to its traditional spot on Labor Day weekend.

Changes for Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway and Darlington Raceway are among the major alterations to the 36-race NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule, plus two non-points events. The season begins Feb. 22 with the season-opening Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway and ends Nov. 22 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, site of the season finale since 2002.

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will expand from 22 to 23 races next season, adding an early season date at Atlanta. The NASCAR Nationwide Series, which will gain new title sponsorship in 2015, remains at 33 races. The news was announced Tuesday on FOX Sports 1 and NBC Sports Network.

NASCAR Executive Vice President & Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O’Donnell credited stakeholders across NASCAR with working together to put out all three national series schedules at once in August, earlier than the usual mid-September release date.

"It was really a result of some great collaboration from the entire industry," O’Donnell said. "The tracks recognized this was an opportunity for us if we could collectively, with NBC and FOX coming on board, look at some of the venues that may have had challenged dates and put them in a better position to succeed.

"We also knew that getting the schedule out early for all three series was really important for the fans. If we were able to get that out ahead of time, a lot of our fans plan vacations around races so getting them notice early was really the goal for the entire industry."

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The move of Darlington’s Sprint Cup date to Sept. 6 rekindles a sense of history for NASCAR’s oldest superspeedway, which hosted stock-car racing’s first 500-mile race in 1950. The crown-jewel event and the surrounding pageantry became a staple of early September in the South Carolina sandhills until 2003. Since then, the Southern 500 has been held in November (2004), on Mother’s Day weekend (2005-13) and mid-April (this season).

Next season, Darlington will become the next-to-last race before the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup postseason begins. "Back to its traditional roots of Labor Day, we anticipate an early afternoon start on Sunday for that event," O’Donnell said.

The 2015 Chase will be contested on the current 10 tracks, starting Sept. 20 at Chicagoland Speedway. Richmond International Raceway will remain host to the regular-season finale on Sept. 12.

Atlanta, which had held the Labor Day weekend spot since 2009, shifts its lone Sprint Cup race to March 1. The 1.54-mile track, which first hosted NASCAR’s top division in 1960, had held stock-car races in either March or early April with regularity from 1963 to 2010. Atlanta also adds the Truck Series to its late winter weekend; the Hampton, Georgia track last hosted the circuit in 2012.

As announced last Friday at the World’s Fastest Half-Mile, Bristol Motor Speedway‘s daytime Sprint Cup race will shift deeper into the spring on April 19, pushing it from race No. 4 this season to race No. 8 in 2015.

Other enhancements to the 2015 NASCAR schedules:

— Instead of crisscrossing the country four times in the early part of the schedule as in recent years, Atlanta’s move to race No. 2 on the Sprint Cup schedule allows for a Western swing before the calendar dives headlong into spring. Las Vegas Motor Speedway will remain the third race on the slate, but will be followed by Phoenix International Raceway (formerly race No. 2) and Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, which stays put as the fifth race of the year. The Nationwide Series, which runs companion events with the Sprint Cup tour for races No. 1 through 5, shifts its schedule accordingly.

"In talking to both SMI (Speedway Motorsports Inc.) and ISC (International Speedway Corporation), looking at the promotional efforts that could be put around three races in a row versus going east, west and back and forth, a lot of the marketing assets that a lot of the companies have in terms of hospitality, being able to do some really cool things for the fans, sometimes we weren’t able to deliver that for each race market because of the travel back and forth," O’Donnell said. "Now when you’re out west for three straight weeks, the fans can expect that same cool NASCAR experience at all three venues."

— The newly added truck race for Atlanta will form a rare same-day doubleheader with the Nationwide Series on Feb. 28. It’s the first time that a scheduled doubleheader has run at the same track since 2009 at Auto Club. "We put together a full day of Trucks and then Cup practice and then a Nationwide race," O’Donnell said.

— Daytona will host its traditional mid-summer Coke Zero 400 on a Sunday next season. "Probably late afternoon to primetime for Sunday," O’Donnell said of a start time, "and celebrate an additional fireworks show so we thought it was a great opportunity for the fans."

— The Sprint Cup schedule will add an idle weekend at the end of August, after Bristol’s annual night race and before the Southern 500. Adding the break will provide respite for drivers and teams on what is currently a run of 17 races in 17 weeks to the end of the season. The off weekends are April 5 (Easter), June 21 (Father’s Day) and August 30.

— The third off weekend for the Sprint Cup tour will become a road-racing weekend for the other two national series. The Nationwide Series’ now-annual trip to Road America in Wisconsin will slide from late June to late August, running the same weekend that the truck series returns for a third straight season to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Ontario.

"(The third Cup off weekend) is really just a quirk in the schedule in terms of where the weekends fall out," O’Donnell said. "If you knew you wanted to end Homestead traditionally where we did for the season before Thanksgiving, and you backed that up and have Labor Day in there as well as an anchor date, it just fell in place for an additional off week for 2015."

— Charlotte Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway will flip-flop their current October race weekends.

— Kentucky Speedway‘s lone Sprint Cup race will return to early July. The track hosted its Sprint Cup debut on July 9, 2011, but has run in late June in every year since. It will continue as a tripleheader weekend for all three national series.

— The addition of a Father’s Day weekend off will move Sonoma Raceway‘s Sprint Cup date back one week, to the final weekend in June. O’Donnell said the Father’s Day off week for the Cup Series was "a result of some stakeholder conversations with some other competing sporting events that happen to be going on that weekend as well so we just thought it was best for us. The timing worked out great for us from a Father’s Day perspective to take that weekend off. A lot of our drivers are fathers. We’ll take that week off and head into Sonoma."

— The two non-points races will remain at the same dates and places on the schedule. The Sprint Unlimited kick-off race for the previous year’s Coors Light Pole Award winners will be run at Daytona the week before the Daytona 500. The NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race remains at Charlotte, one week ahead of the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend.

— NASCAR will race on the Ohio dirt of Eldora Speedway for a third straight year with the Camping World Truck Series. The third annual Mudsummer Classic will be scheduled July 22.

— When asked about a mid-week event for the Sprint Cup Series, O’Donnell said, "It’s certainly worked for the Trucks with Eldora and in Bristol as well. It is something that we’ve looked at from time to time, but a Cup event is so big and there’s so much effort into the travel and the assets that go into that event that I think that would be down the road if ever considered."

The 2015 NASCAR national series schedules (non-points races noted in parentheses):

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Posted on August 26, 2014 by Zack Albert

Logano, Keselowski gain ground after Penske 1-2 at Bristol

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Posted on August 26, 2014 by Nascar

Wife, kids and parents tour Air Force One without four-time champion

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon got an invitation to tour Air Force One Tuesday as President Barack Obama traveled to Charlotte to speak to delegates attending the American Legion convention.

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There was just one problem — Gordon was taking part in the first day of a two-day test scheduled for Hendrick Motorsports teams at Martinsville Speedway.

Gordon’s wife, Ingrid, their two children and Gordon’s stepfather and mother, John and Carol Bickford, were able to travel to Charlotte Douglas International Airport to tour the aircraft — and wound up getting to meet the President as well.

"I don’t like throwing this guy out there too much," Gordon said after wrapping up the first day’s work. "But it’s a situation where there was a young kid that I met in ’94 I guess, ’94 or ’95, at the Charlotte airport, and his family were big NASCAR fans. He came here and through the (race) shops. I was going through the airport to fly somewhere, and he was standing in front of me."

Gordon had just met the young man’s uncle, he said, "and he told me, ‘hey, there’s a young boy over there and is a huge fan of yours. If you could just say hi to him.’ So I said hi to him."

Twenty years later, Gordon said, the youngster now works at the White House.

"He’s a great guy, and a fan of mine, but I’m just as big of a fan of his and the work that he is doing," Gordon said.

"He was coming to Charlotte and asked me if we wanted to go do a tour of Air Force One. I said, ‘I’m testing.’ So Ingrid and the kids and my mom and dad were able to go.

"They didn’t know they were going to meet the President, they just thought they were going to go do the tour of Air Force One. But it worked out that they got to say hello to him as well."

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Four-time Cup champion views Darlington as Southern 500 no matter the time

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MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Jeff Gordon hadn’t had a lot of time to digest the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule before he met with members of the media Tuesday at Martinsville Speedway.

But the four-time champion and current points leader did say what he saw "looks interesting."

NASCAR unveiled next year’s Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series schedules Tuesday at 5 p.m. Gordon and teammates Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne were wrapping up the first day of a two-day test at Martinsville when the announcement was made.

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Headlining the moves for the Sprint Cup Series are changes for events at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway and Darlington Raceway. Atlanta’s Sprint Cup race had been held on the Labor Day weekend since 2009. Next season, it moves to March 1, one week after the season-opening Daytona 500.

Bristol’s spring race will be run in April instead of March while Darlington, which hosted the annual Southern 500 on Labor Day weekend from 1950 through 2003 before moving to a May date, moves back to the first weekend in September.

"The fact that we still get to go to Darlington, that’s what matters the most to me," Gordon, a five-time Southern 500 winner, said. "As well as what the fans are going to get to enjoy and what works for them, to come out and enjoy such an awesome race track with so much history.

"It’s always the Southern 500 to me. If I went to Darlington four times a year, I’d say ‘it’s the Southern 500.’ That’s just the way I look at Darlington.

"Bristol is an important race, a huge fan base there. You don’t want weather to deter fans that want to go to Bristol. I think that’s a good one.

"Atlanta, being the second race of the year … I like going to Atlanta anytime of the year as well, as long as it doesn’t snow like it did that one year then I think that’s a great choice to have second."

For 2015, Sprint Cup teams will run a "western" swing, with consecutive stops at Las Vegas, Phoenix and Auto Club Speedway in March.

The move could cut out at least one cross-country trip for teams.

"I like the western swing and how they have a bigger track, short track, bigger track so if the teams, and I haven’t talked to the team about how they would possibly coordinate that, but it is possible to make sort of a western hub and bring some equipment from the shop so you don’t have to go back and forth which could be a big help," Gordon said.

Las Vegas is a 1.5-mile track, Phoenix measures one mile and Auto Club is a 2-mile layout.

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Posted on August 26, 2014 by Nascar

With Chase spot locked up, Junior aims to enter postseason on a high note

MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Dale Earnhardt Jr. knows he and his team will be in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, but the Hendrick Motorsports driver said he doesn’t plan to coast through the two remaining races before the Chase begins.

"We can still try to get some wins," Earnhardt Jr. said Tuesday during a break in testing at Martinsville Speedway. "Those three bonus points for a win going into the Chase, they didn’t change that, did they?

"We’d like to get some more bonus points if we can. We had a real strong car Saturday night (at Bristol), but anytime you don’t finish well you want to kind of re-assert yourself and get the team’s confidence to where it needs to be going into the most important time of the season. So we’re going to run as hard as we can."

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Earnhardt Jr. and his No. 88 team will roll into Atlanta, site of Sunday’s Oral-B USA 500 (ESPN, 7:30 p.m. ET), second in points and looking for their fourth win of the season. His 39th-place finish at Bristol was his second worst of the season, and was the result of damage from an incident that began with contact between Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin.

"Atlanta is a track that I love to race on," he said. "We haven’t been there since we changed the rule package and I’m excited to see how that changes the style of racing we have there, where the line’s going to be, where the speed’s going to be.

"We’re taking a brand new car there, so … it will be updated with all the latest and greatest and see what kind of speed we have."

Earnhardt Jr. is one of 12 drivers with one or more wins this season, thus all but guaranteed a spot in the 16-team Chase field. Others are still hopeful, although their opportunities are dwindling.

"You have to imagine that if you’re outside that window of making the Chase, those guys are going to have to gamble. They’ve got to," he said.

"You’ve got to try. So you might see some guys do some things that they typically wouldn’t do. It’s all going to be on pit road. I don’t see anybody doing … anything crazy out on the race track … but everybody’s going to run hard. I think the racing may remind you of kind of what we saw at Texas between Brad (Keselowski) and Jimmie (Johnson) when Brad won his championship (in 2012). They had a hell of a race there on that last restart. We’re probably going to see some action like that. I hope we do; I think the fans deserve it. It will be a lot of fun seeing some of these guys trying to get their spot in the Chase.

"… If you’re at Richmond and one of those guys not locked in and your chances are not looking that great, you’ve got to do something. It will be interesting to see how far these guys are willing to go to make something happen."

All four Hendrick Motorsports drivers – Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne – took part in Tuesday’s test at Martinsville. Gordon and Johnson have a combined 16 wins on the flat, 0.526-mile track.

Earnhardt Jr., who has 11 top-fives here, and Kahne are still looking for their first victory at the track. All four teams are scheduled to return for additional testing on Wednesday.

Martinsville is the only short track among the 10 stops that make up the Chase, and a place where "you can get yourself into some trouble if you’re not careful," Earnhardt Jr. said.

"I’ve had a lot of good runs, just haven’t ever won here. This is one of those places that has a lot of history and it would mean the world for me to win here. We’ve had some cars that have run well, finished in top five several times, just never been that guy.

"We’re down here trying to find that extra little bit to give us a little bit more dominant of a race car and hopefully give us the edge we will need to come out of here with a win.

"We’ve always had competitive cars, top-five, top-10 cars, just never really had that car that was impressive over the rest of the field, that had what it takes to win here."

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Posted on August 26, 2014 by Nascar

One of a few changes to NASCAR schedule

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Bristol Motor Speedway‘s spring race weekend will move some two weeks or later into the season beginning next year, according to NASCAR’s Brett Jewkes.

Jewkes, Vice President, Chief Communications Officer for NASCAR, announced that next year’s spring race weekend at BMS would be held April 17-19, ending nearly a decade-long run of mid-March dates.

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"NASCAR is not going to confirm anything until Tuesday, but we will confirm one thing to whet your appetite," he said in announcing the date change.

For the past nine seasons, Bristol’s spring date has fallen in March. Weather conditions have varied, occasionally warm and spring-like but more often cold and on at least one occasion, snowfall.

"We have the most passionate race fans in all of the sport and the greatest partners," BMS General Manager Jerry Caldwell said. "It wouldn’t be possible without the race fans, they repeatedly asked that we move to a more traditional spring date."

Race sponsor Food City signed a five-year extension earlier this year to remain title sponsor of the Food City 500 Sprint Cup Series race, said "we do this because we believe in the fans.

"That’s the business we’re in … we like when folks come visit the Tri-Cities," Smith said. "It’s been a little tough the last few years with some of the inconsistent weather we’ve had. When we get to mid April timeframe, we know that there’s a lot better chance we’ll get to be better hosts and more hospitable … and bring more people to the Food City 500. I compliment NASCAR and (SMI founder) Bruton (Smith) for working so hard on this."

The average temperature in the Tri-Cities region for April 19 is 69 degrees according to U.S. Climate Data and Accuweather.com.

There was no Sprint Cup race on the weekend of April 19th this season as it was the Easter holiday. Easter will fall on April 5 in 2015.

Bristol Motor Speedway hosts two NASCAR weekends annually — in addition to the spring races, the track’s annual August night races are among the most anticipated of the season.

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Posted on August 26, 2014 by Brad Norman

Week of big announcements coincides with best team performance

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Roush Fenway Racing began the week with cornerstone driver Carl Edwards formally announcing he would represent Joe Gibbs Racing in 2015 and beyond.

The team would later announce a new "anchor" sponsor for Greg Biffle (Ortho) on Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway, then end a week of transition with a first for the 2014 season — all three drivers finished in the top 10.

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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Edwards posted finishes of sixth and seventh, respectively, and Biffle notched his fourth consecutive top-10 with a 10th-place finish in Saturday’s Irwin Tools Night Race at the 0.533-mile high-banked track.

Biffle’s run, in which he had his bumper cover hanging off at one point and bumped Justin Allgaier three times under caution perhaps to demonstrate a point, comes on the heels of reiterating his commitment to Jack Roush.

"We’re making improvement and we’re on our way to get back to winning races," Biffle said. "It’s gonna take another five or six races."

The team has long known Edwards would not return, and publicly announced a three-driver 2015 lineup of Biffle, Stenhouse and Trevor Bayne in late July.

Stenhouse’s showing in particular was impressive. His No. 17 Ford was fast enough to lead final practice Friday afternoon, but issues getting through technical inspection did not allow the driver enough of an opportunity to lay down a fast lap in qualifying. He started Saturday’s event 21st.

"We’ve got a lot of work do to, but definitely really pleased with how we finished," Stenhouse said. "We’ll get better and keep working on it. Our pit crew did an awesome job on pit road, and (crew chief) Mike (Kelley) made a good call to take the wave around (early in the race) to get back on the lead lap."

With Edwards already locked into the 16-driver Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup field and Biffle currently in on points, the momentum appears to be most important for Stenhouse.

Filling the seat formerly occupied by Matt Kenseth — who coincidentally left for JGR following the 2012 season — has been a tough slog for the two-time NASCAR Nationwide Series champion.

He has two top-fives and eight top-10s in 65 career Sprint Cup starts. Saturday showed that he can run up front, something he’ll be called to do more of next season.

"That felt really good to pass some cars. It was a great night. We needed it. We had a decent week at Michigan (last week), so we’ll just keep trying to build on it."

That goes for the driver and organization alike.

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Posted on August 25, 2014 by NASCAR Wire Service

See the full lineup of NASCAR programming for the week

Monday, August 25
5 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FOX Sports 1
6 p.m., NASCAR America, NBC Sports Network
7 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub (re-air), FOX Sports 2
8 p.m., NASCAR K&N Pro Series Race at Evergreen (re-air), FOX Sports 2

Tuesday, August 26
5 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBC Sports Network
7 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub (re-air), FOX Sports 2

Wednesday, August 27
5 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBC Sports Network
7 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub (re-air), FOX Sports 2

Thursday, August 28
7 a.m., TUDOR United SportsCar Championship Race at VIR (re-air), FOX Sports 2
5 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBC Sports Network
6:30 p.m., Empty Cup: Quest for the 1992 NASCAR Championship (re-air), FOX Sports 2
7 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub (re-air), FOX Sports 2

Friday, August 29
1 p.m., The 10 Earnhardt Moments (re-air), FOX Sports 1
1:30 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub Special, FOX Sports 1
2:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Practice, FOX Sports 1
4 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Practice, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., NASCAR Live, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBC Sports Network
5:30 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Final Practice, FOX Sports 1
7 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FOX Sports 1
4:30 a.m. (Sat.), NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying (re-air), FOX Sports 1

Saturday, August 30
6 a.m., The 10 Greatest Drivers in NASCAR History (re-air), FOX Sports 1
10:30 a.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying (re-air), FOX Sports 1
12:30 p.m., NASCAR America: Scan All 43 Special (re-air), NBC Sports Network
3 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Practice, FOX Sports 2
4 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FOX Sports 2
5:30 p.m., Empty Cup: Quest for the 1992 NASCAR Championship (re-air), FOX Sports 2
6 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Final Practice, FOX Sports 2
7 p.m., NNS Countdown, ESPN2
7:30 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Race at Atlanta, ESPN2

Sunday, August 31
10 a.m., Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Race at VIR, FOX Sports 1
Noon, NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Race at Bristol, FOX Sports 1
1 p.m., NCWTS SetUp, FOX Sports 1
1:30 p.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay, FOX Sports 1
7 p.m., NSCS Countdown, ESPN
7:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race at Atlanta, ESPN
Midnight (Mon.), NASCAR Victory Lane, FOX Sports 1

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